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Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)

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Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places)
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) cover
Developers
Sierra On-Line
Publishers
Retail Sierra On-Line
Digital Codemasters
Engines
SCI0
Release dates
DOS October 27, 1988
Windows (ScummVM) January 17, 2013
macOS (OS X) (ScummVM) January 17, 2013[1]
Linux (ScummVM) December 17, 2015
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Flip screen
Controls Text input
Genres Adventure
Themes Adult, Comedy, Cold War, Oceania
Series Leisure Suit Larry
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) on HowLongToBeat
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) on IGDB
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) on MobyGames
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) on Wikipedia
Softporn Adventure 1981
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards 1987
Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) 1988
Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals 1989
Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work 1991
Leisure Suit Larry's Casino 1992
Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! 1993
Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! 1996
Leisure Suit Larry's Casino (1998) 1998
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude 2004
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust 2009
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards: Reloaded 2013
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry 2018
Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice 2020

Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) is a singleplayer flip screen adventure game in the Leisure Suit Larry series.

General information

Can be run under ScummVM.
Leisure Suit Larry Omnipedia - Leisure Suit Larry Wiki
Al Lowe's Humor Site - The series on Al Lowe's personal website
Sierra Gamers - Game page on Ken Williams' personal website
Hardcore Gaming 101 - Comprehensive feature on the series
Larry Laffer Dot Net - Active fan site featuring music from Larry games
The Sierra Help Pages - Extensive troubleshooting guide
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Manual-based copy protection.
DOS
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Windows
GOG.com
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Part of Leisure Suit Larry 1-6 bundle. Pre-packaged with ScummVM.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Pre-packaged with ScummVM.
Windows
ZOOM Platform (unavailable)
Prompts for answers from manual, code wheel, etc.
Part of Leisure Suit Larry 1-6 Collection. Also includes Softporn Adventure.
Delisted on March 31, 2023.[2]
Windows
In all releases, manual lookup is used for copy protection.

Version differences

The GOG.com and ZOOM Platform re-releases are a bundle based on the 1997 Leisure Suit Larry: Collection Series. They include:

Essential improvements

Higher quality visuals

This fix is for the ScummVM re-release. It will disable dithering to increase the number of displayed colors.
Change display options in ScummVM configuration file[3]
  1. Edit the file <path-to-game>\lsl2.ini.
  2. In the [lsl2] section, add the line disable_dithering=true.
  3. Save the file.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\RESOURCE.CFG
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/765840/pfx/[Note 2]
The GOG.com re-release uses ScummVM configuration file lsl2.ini.
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS <path-to-game>\LSL2SG.*
Windows <path-to-game>\LSL2SG.*[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/765840/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

Video options
Video options

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS and 120+ FPS

Input

Audio

Audio options
Audio options

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Only Master volume can be adjusted.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
For DOSBox change the priority background value in the DOSBox configuration file.
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Issues fixed

Stuck at the opening screen / Can't start a new game or load a saved game

The game uses manual-based copy protection, which is also present in all digital re-releases. The question has to be answered every time the game is launched.
Use a cheat code[4]

On the copy protection screen, input the following number: 0724 (Al Lowe's birthday). Using this code will also skip the intro.

(alternative) Use a cheat sheet[5]

Look up the correct phone number on the graphic provided by Al Lowe.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes Hercules, Tandy/PCjr, CGA, EGA MCGA and VGA are also supported in 16-color compatibility mode.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 2.0
Processor (CPU) 8088 / 8086 5 MHz
System memory (RAM) 512 KB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) CGA
Windows
Minimum
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/765840/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (765840) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Release: Leisure Suit Larry's Greatest Hits and Misses! - GOG.com - last accessed on May 2023
  2. Electronic Arts - Codemasters De-Listing Notice - last accessed on 2023-03-21
  3. Verified by User:Quiet Bob on 2022-01-28
  4. Clues & Cheats! - Al Lowe's Humor Site - last accessed on May 2023
  5. Clues & Cheats! - Al Lowe's Humor Site - last accessed on May 2023